St. John Parish's 1st murder of 2015: Man shot dead in Garyville

Authorities in St. John the Baptist Parish were investigating their first homicide of 2015 after the body of an unidentified man was found next to a house in
Garyville
on Wednesday (Sept. 16) morning. He had been shot.

The Sheriff's Office said it received a call at 7:40 a.m., sending deputies to find the victim beside a house in the
300 block of Sherman Walker Street
. He was pronounced dead at the scene. No additional information was immediately released.